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Posted: May 09, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: May 9 One of the four types of rapid antigen tests available in Ontario. The Ottawa Board of Trade is hoping out 50,000 rapid COVID-19 tests to local businesses with 150 employees or fewer by the end of May. (Robert Short/CBC) Small-and-medium-sized businesses in Ottawa will soon get access to thousands of rapid COVID-19 tests intended to better track asymptomatic cases. The Ontario Chamber of Commerce has partnered with both the federal and provincial governments to provide 700,000 rapid tests to businesses in Ontario.  In the nation's capi...

Small and medium-sized businesses in the capital will soon have access to free rapid antigen tests for COVID-19 thanks to a new program from the Ottawa Board of Trade and the Ontario Chamber of Commerce. Any local business with 150 or fewer employees will be eligible to receive the rapid screening kits, which will be distributed through the Ottawa Board of Trade and Invest Ottawa. The goal of the program is to identify asymptomatic cases of COVID-19 in the workplace and prevent outbreaks of the coronavirus. “Public health and the health of our economy are interdependent,” OBOT chief execu...

Provincial officials left Ottawa off a short list of Eastern Ontario regions cleared for a gradual economic reopening later this week, leaving at least one Ottawa business leader seeing red over what he calls a lack of clarity in the government’s announcement. The province is expected to announce some easing of the current restrictions on Ottawa businesses next week. But as Ontario returns to its colour-coded framework – which lays out five stages of increasingly severe regulations – for regions across the province, it’s not clear where Ottawa might fall. Mayor Jim Watson tweeted Mond...

Opinion: The urgent need for widespread rapid testing Special to National Post © Provided by National Post A medical worker performs a COVID-19 swab test upon a woman at a rapid-testing station at the Panagia Evangelistria Greek Orthodox Church in Cyprus' capital Nicosia on Jan. 29. The following open letter arguing for the adoption of widespread rapid testing in Canada was signed by 28 members of the medical and business communities. As the second wave of the pandemic continues, infection rates and hospitalizations are rising in many parts of Canada. Both lives and liveli...

Sueling Ching said the province will likely have no choice but to extend widespread business shutdowns if the city’s infection rate continues at its current level.